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<div class="doc_title">LLVM Developer Policy</div>
<ol>
<li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#general">General Policies</a>
<li><a href="#policies">Developer Policies</a>
<ol>
<li><a href="#informed">Stay Informed</a></li>
<li><a href="#patches">Making a Patch</a></li>
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<li><a href="#testcases">Test Cases</a></li>
<li><a href="#quality">Quality</a></li>
<li><a href="#commitaccess">Obtaining Commit Access</a></li>
<li><a href="#newwork">Making a Major Change</a>
<ol>
<li><a href="#incremental">Incremental Development</a></li>
</ol></li>
<li><a href="#newwork">Making a Major Change</a></li>
<li><a href="#incremental">Incremental Development</a></li>
<li><a href="#attribution">Attribution of Changes</a></li>
</ol></li>
<li><a href="#candl">Copyright and License</a>
<ol>
<li><a href="#copyright">Copyright</a></li>
<li><a href="#license">License</a></li>
<li><a href="#patents">Patents</a></li>
<li><a href="#devagree">Developer Agreements</a></li>
</ol></li>
</ol>
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</div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
<div class="doc_section"><a name="general">General Policies</a></div>
<div class="doc_section"><a name="policies">Developer Policies</a></div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
<div class="doc_text">
<p>This section contains policies that pertain generally to regular LLVM
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<li>Patches should be made with this command:
<pre>cvs diff -Ntdup -5</pre>
or with the utility <tt>utils/mkpatch</tt>. to make it easy to read the
or with the utility <tt>utils/mkpatch</tt>, which makes it easy to read the
diff.</li>
<li>Patches should not include differences in generated code such as the
code generated by <tt>flex</tt>, <tt>bison</tt> or <tt>tblgen</tt>. The
<tt>utils/mkpatch</tt> utility takes care of this for you.</li>
<li>Contributions must not knowingly infringe on any patents. To the best of
our knowledge, LLVM is free of any existing patent violations and it is our
intent to keep it that way.</li>
</ol>
</div>
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a major new extension, it is a good idea to get consensus with the development
community before you start working on it.</p>
<p>Once the design of the new feature is finalized, the work itself should be
done as a series of <a href="#incremental">incremental changes</a>, not as
a long-term development branch.</p>
</div>
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<div class="doc_subsubsection"> <a name="incremental">Incremental Development</a>
<div class="doc_subsection"> <a name="incremental">Incremental Development</a>
</div>
<div class="doc_text">
<p>Once the design of the new feature is finalized, the work itself should be
done as a series of incremental changes, not as a long-term development
branch. Long-term development branches have a number of drawbacks:</p>
<p>In the LLVM project, we do all significant changes as a series of
incremental patches. We have a strong dislike for huge changes or
long-term development branches. Long-term development branches have a
number of drawbacks:</p>
<ol>
<li>Branches must have mainline merged into them periodically. If the branch
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href="mailto:llvm-oversight@cs.uiuc.edu">LLVM Oversight Group</a>.</p>
</div>
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<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="patents">Patents</a></div>
<div class="doc_text">
<p>Contributions must not knowingly infringe on any patents. To the best of
our knowledge, LLVM is free of any existing patent violations and it is our
intent to keep it that way.</p>
</div>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="devagree">Developer Agreements</a></div>
<div class="doc_text">